Scilab Function
Last update : 27/10/2005

cat - concatenate several arrays

### Calling Sequence

  `y=cat(dims,A1,A2,...,An)`

### Parameters

- `dims`: a positive real scalar.
- `A1,A2,..An`: scalars, vectors, matrices or mutlti-arrays, or cells arrays. A1,A2,...,An must have the same size (excluding the dimension number dims). size(A1,i)=size(A2,i)=...=size(An,i) for i different of dims and size(A1,dims), size(A2,dims),...,size(An,dims) can be different.
- `y`: a scalar, vector, matrix or mutlti-array, y has the same type than A1,A2,...,An.

### Description

`y=cat(dims,A1,A2,...,An) :` y is the result of the concatenation of the input arguments A1,A2,...,An. if dims=1then the concatenation is done according to the rows : if dims=2 then concatenation is done according to the columns of the input arguments,...

if dims=1, then the concatenation is done according to the rows

A1=[1 2 3 ; 4 5 6]; A2=[7 8 9 ; 10 11 12]; y=cat(1,A1,A2) => y=[1 2 3 ; 4 5 61 ;7 8 9; 10 11 12]

if dims=2, then the concatenation is done according to the columns of the input arguments

A1=[1 2 3;4 5 6]; A2=[7 8 9 ;10 11 12]; y=cat(2,A1,A2) => y=[1 2 3 7 8 9 ; 4 5 6 10 11 12]

### Examples

    // first example : concatenation according to the rows
    dims=1; A1=[1 2 3]; A2=[4 5 6 ; 7 8 9]; A3=[10 11 12]; y=cat(dims,A1,A2,A3)
    // second example :  concatenation according to the columns
    dims=2; A1=[1 2 3]'; A2=[4 5;7 8;9 10]; y=cat(dims,A1,A2)
    // third example : concatenation according to the 3th dimension
    dims=3; A1=matrix(1:12,[2,2,3]); A2=[13 14;15 16]; A3=matrix(21:36,[2,2,4]); y=cat(dims,A1,A2,A3)

### See Also

`permute`, `matrix`,

### Author

Farid Belahcene